East Penn Township

Arrested -- Robert J. Schreiber, 38, of Bensalem, Bucks County, on suspicion of drunken driving at 8:12 p.m. Sunday; taken into custody after state police at Lehighton stopped to give assistance in 100 block of Thunder Lane; charges pending approval from Carbon County district attorney's office.

By Emily Opilo, Of The Morning Call and By Emily Opilo, Of The Morning Call | May 18, 2013

A fire that swept through a Carbon County house has left a family homeless. Firefighters were called to a home in the 100 block of Tiffany Lane in East Penn Township just after 8 a.m. Saturday. Crews found the home fully engulfed in flames. The American Red Cross Greater Lehigh Valley Chapter provided two adults who escaped the blaze with food, lodging, clothing and shoes, according to a release from the group. More services will be provided as needed.

A woman was taken by helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest after crashing her car on Lizard Creek Road in East Penn Township Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened about 4 p.m. She was apparently traveling east on Lizard Creek Road, which is Route 895, before losing control of the car and crashing into a stand of trees. Emergency personnel from Carbon and Schuylkill counties responded. The accident closed the road for several hours. The identity of the driver and details of the accident were not immediately available.

A Carbon County woman is in jail after allegedly stabbing a man in the face during a domestic dispute, state police at Lehighton said. Police responded to a report of a dispute Friday night at 1361 E. Lizard Creek Road in East Penn Township and arrested Kristy Ann Jones for allegedly cutting Michael Paul Wallace of Lehighton in the face, police said. Jones and Wallace were taken to the Palmerton Hospital for injuries sustained in the dispute. Jones is in Carbon County Prison.

A Lehighton woman was injured last week when she drove her car into a tree in East Penn Township, police said. She said she swerved to avoid a deer. Samantha L. Wilson, 20, was southbound on Smithlane Road, just south of Dinkey Road, at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday when, she said, the deer ran out in front of her car, forcing her to steer sharply to the right, state police at Lehighton said. Wilson's car hit a tree in front of 1361 Smithlane Road, and she suffered moderate injuries, police said.

A woman was taken by helicopter to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest after crashing her car on Lizard Creek Road in East Penn Township Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened about 4 p.m. She was apparently traveling east on Lizard Creek Road, which is Route 895, before losing control of the car and crashing into a stand of trees. Emergency personnel from Carbon and Schuylkill counties responded. The accident closed the road for several hours. The identity of the driver and details of the accident were not immediately available.

Police are investigating the death of a Lehighton man whose body was found in the Lehigh River in East Penn Township, Carbon County, on Saturday. State police at Lehighton released few details about the death of Jay Ralph Kershner, who was reported missing Oct. 16. Police didn't say who discovered the body. Carbon County Coroner Bruce Nalesnik said an autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday. —Patrick Lester

A fire that swept through a one-story house in Carbon County displaced two residents and kept firefighters from six departments busy for several hours Monday afternoon. The house at 42 Hartranft Lane in East Penn Township was destroyed, according to emergency radio dispatchers. The blaze started about noon and the house burned for hours as firefighters trucked water to the rural site west of Bowmanstown and the Northeast Extension of the Turnpike off Dieters Hill Road. No injuries were reported.

A 47-year-old Lehighton man is in jail under $50,000 bail after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman he took to a rural field in East Penn Township while driving her home from a community center Sunday. George T. Anger was arrested by state police at Lehighton Sunday and charged with unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, indecent exposure and two counts each of indecent assault and aggravated indecent assault. State police said Anger and the woman were at a community center, and Anger agreed to drive the 39-year-old woman home around 4 p.m. Sunday.

Windows were smashed and an inside stairwell door to an old Carbon County school house was damaged sometime over the last two weeks, police said. The outside window panes were broken and the door broken at the 43 Holiday Road, East Penn Township, building between July 24 and Sunday, state police at Lehighton said. Paper files also were ransacked and strewn across the floor, police said. The old white school house, across the Lehigh River from Bowmanstown, is owned by Clyde R. Shoop.

A 21-year-old Carbon County man crashed into a utility pole on Route 145 in Lehigh Township Wednesday night injuring two passengers and forcing the road to be closed for about an hour. Lehigh Township Police Department said Jeffrey J. Kreitz of Leiby Lane, East Penn Township, was driving north when he lost control on a curve and spun the back end of his Subaru Impreza into the pole around 9 p.m. His passengers, Jacob Wertman, 21, of Blue Mountain Road, East Penn Township, and Shane Jefferson,18, of N. Seventh Street, Lehighton, were taken to area hospitals.

According to PennDOT, there will be lane restriction on the following roads in Carbon County: Berger Creek Road between Route 895 and Ben Salem Road in East Penn Township, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. June 7-11; Hemlock Drive between Routes 209 and 902 in Mahoning Township, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. June 7-11; Route 93 between Route 209 and Quakake Road in Packer Township, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. June 7-11 for shoulder work/widening; and Spruce Hollow Road between Route...